Hi everyone! Here is the next chapter for your enjoyment. But first some updates. I really want to upload another chapter for my Bleach story, but there ain't a lot of inspiration at the moment which sucks! Another chapter for Just Wait and See is on its way, since I have more inspiration for that. Um, what else...Oh! I have six more days left here in the U.S. Yup I shall be going to Japan very soon! Woo! But no worries, I shall keep writing for you all so no fear! Thanks to everyone who reviews, the adds, and for your support! Hope you all like the next chapter! Take care!
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Chapter 22: The Lost and the First
"Where the hell am I?" I asked no one in particular as I looked at the scenery around me. This had to be some sort of dream. Wait, I died didn't I? But if I did, why is Haruhi right next to me? I looked at the younger girl and saw that she had the same confused look like I did. Then out of no where, a hand had landed on my bare shoulder.
"Behold, Haruhi, Setsuna-senpai. There are some tropical birds. They are such beauties. I wonder what they're called," Tamaki said as he instead admired the scenery around him.
"Where's the exit again?" Haruhi said. Those were just the words that I was thinking in my head.
Sadly enough, Haruhi and I were dragged by Tamaki to some lounge chairs that were under the shade of a giant umbrella. I sat down on the empty chair while Haruhi stood a little away from Tamaki, who was currently drinking something tropical.
"Spending casual time likes this is very important for people like us who work on our looks day and night," He said as he held his drink.
"I could've done this at home while watching movies," I mumbled to myself.
"This whole thing is meaningless and preposterously inconsequential, so may I go home?" Haruhi questioned while looking uninterested. "I want to study, and I have to do my laundry today. Above all else, where is this place?"
"Good question," I said. I remember clearly the moment when this all happened.
Just a While Ago…15:38
I was walking out of the main entrance as I minded my own business when out of no where, I was swiped off my feet. Literally. Takashi held me in his arms as Hunny bounced up and down saying something along the lines of target captured. A limo suddenly passed by and there was Tamaki himself.
"Good, take her away."
"Roger!" Hunny said excitedly.
"What?!" I was suddenly taken away and in no time, thrown into a limo. Well, not really thrown.
Once I got there, Hikaru and Kaoru dragged me away from Takashi and Hunny. I tried to escape but those bastards had to tie me up. What's up with them and their fetish of seeing me suffer?
They took me to a changing room and there I saw the same two maids that were at Hikaru's and Kaoru's mansion.
"This one's all yours, too!" The both said together.
"Understood!" The one on my left said as she tilted her head to her right.
"Well then, Ayase-sama," the one on my right began. An evil gleam suddenly appeared as she continued, "This way please."
I'm scared now.
Their hands grabbed me and pulled me into the dressing room. Immediately they stripped me from my clothing only leaving me in my bra and panties. I felt exposed as I covered my body as much as I could.
"Hold up a second!" I shouted as I continued covering myself.
"We've prepared some swimsuits for you in that room," one of them said to me.
From outside I heard Kaoru say, "We brought all of our mother's new designs over."
"Just pick one you like," Hikaru said next.
"But they all are too skimpy for me," I said aloud as I picked up a string bikini.
"That's the point!" They shouted back.
I sighed as I looked around for something to wear. Then it hit me, "If I wear one of these swimsuits then I get to choose my own outfit for the next theme."
"Fine! But it can't be a one piece."
I did my victory dance for a few seconds but then stopped once I heard that it couldn't be a one piece. I sighed as I now started looking around for something to wear. After going up and down, I finally found one that I liked.
It was a teal halter bikini top and bottoms. On the upper right corner of the bottoms was a white nautical star that looked like it was spray painted on. I actually liked it. I grabbed it and looked over at the maids.
"I can handle it from here, ladies. Just let me know where to leave this along with my stuff," I told them as I grabbed my clothes that were on the ground. They then pointed towards my left and that's where I went to get dressed and to place my clothing.
After stripping and placing it on, I ran my fingers through my hair. "I feel weird," I said as I looked at the mirror that was there. I found some white sandals next to the mirror on the ground. I slipped them on and walked out of the room and outside. There I found devious duo.
"There, I hope you're happy," I said to them as I crossed my arms over my chest.
"Nice job!" The twins said as they each gave me a thumbs up. But suddenly they started whispering to each other. Should I be scared?
I quickly walked away from the two and headed towards where everyone was at. The first person I found was Haruhi. She was wearing a yellow parka and some green plaid shorts.
"Hey! Where did you get those from?" I asked Haruhi as soon as I walked next to her.
She looked at me and said, "Tamaki-senpai. You look nice, Suna-chan."
"I feel weird!" I whined to her as I tried to cover my body some more. And just then, Tamaki appeared out of no where.
He currently was wearing some red swim trunks with a black stripe on the sides and at the elastic band. Of course, he was going to be topless. A blush appeared on his blank face as he looked at me. Then out of no where, he held out something towards me.
I grabbed it and saw that it was a Hawaiian print cloth that was teal. I looked at him confused as he finally spoke.
"Put this on. It's only okay for girls to show skin when they get married."
"O-Okay," I grabbed the material and using it, I wrapped the material around me quickly. I was super happy now that my body was being covered. In the end, the Hawaiian cloth that was wrapped around me looked like a strapless dress and ended above my knees.
Then I was suddenly dragged away by the Twins. Hikaru had on green swim trunk while Kaoru's were orange. Both had a yellow stripe going down the sides.
"Setsuna-senpai, lean against the tree please," I was told as soon as I actually hit a tree.
"Why?" I asked leaned against it unconsciously.
"This is for okaa-san. She wanted a picture of you in your swimsuit. So please remove that piece of clothing," I heard Kaoru say.
"Or we will do it by force!" Hikaru smirked.
I waited a while before I slyly slipped off my sandals and moved to grab them as they looked at the camera that was in their hands. Once I had a firm grip on the sandals, I prepared to make a mad dash.
"Never!" I shouted as I ran as fast as possible.
"Get her!" The two shouted from behind me.
I ran while dodging anything that was in my way. I ran past Haruhi and Tamaki as I held onto the material that was covering my body.
"Got you!" I turned to see Hikaru and Kaoru grabbing the material that covered me.
'Damn, I'm gonna have to let this thing go if I want to make my escape,' I thought in my head. I sighed and immediately tugged a certain part of the cloth and let the material fall.
"Woo! I did it!" I cheered as I looked behind me and kept on running.
"Suna-chan!" Hunny suddenly appeared out of no where and scared the living day lights out of me. And it kinda also resulted in me tripping on my own feet.
I closed my eyes and waited for the landing but someone caught me. I opened my eyes and looked at my savior. As fast as I opened my eyes, I quickly regretted opening them. I felt a large blush beginning to form around my face as soon as I laid eyes on Takashi; well more like his chest since my face landed on that. He was wearing dark blue swim trunks that had two grey stripes on the sides.
I looked up at him and saw that he too had a blush plastered on his face. A flash suddenly appeared. Damn bastards. I immediately stepped back from him and looked down.
"Thanks," I said quickly and wandered off before grabbing my fallen piece of clothing.
Now here I am, sitting on a lounge chair next to Tamaki.
"What a peaceful feeling. This time, we don't even have customers whom we must serve," He said loud enough for me to listen. "It's just like a repose for the handsome teenage soldiers, I guess."
I smiled at his words before getting off my chair and slipping on my sandals. I walked over to Haruhi and right when I got there, Hunny suddenly appeared.
"Haru-chan! Suna-chan!" Pink flowers surrounded him as he kept on talking. He was wearing a light blue and yellow swim trunks and around his waist was a pink bunny tube. On his left hand was a pink flower bracelet. "Wanna drink coconut juice? Or do you want to eat some mango cake?"
"I'm fine, thanks," I told Hunny. "I think I might go dip my feet in the water for a while."
"Umm, then I'll take the coconut juice," Haruhi said while looking at him.
"Okay!" Hunny said before taking off.
I too walked off after Hunny did but before leaving I took a last look at Takashi before turning my head. Not noticing that he too looked at my direction.
I walked over to the pool and removed my sandals before sitting down. I slipped my feet in the water and hissed for a bit. The water was cold. After a while, I decided to just swim. I mean I might as well enjoy this since I have no idea when I will be doing this again.
I took off the piece of cloth and placed it right next to the sandals. I slowly brought myself down into the water and immediately I was shivering. I took a deep breath and then dunk my head into the water. I held my breath for a minute or so allowing me to get used to the temperature of the water. Once I felt like I was running out of oxygen, I went back up.
I began to swim around the pool and enjoyed the feeling of water all around me. I went towards the edge and looked over at the small group that had gathered. It was Haruhi, Tamaki, Hikaru, Kaoru, and Renge. Wait a minute! How did she end up here? I shook my head and just got out of the pool and decided to head over to where Hunny was at. But first, I grabbed my belongings and went to the nearest table.
There I found Kyoya just relaxing. He had on purple swim trunks and a light pink Hawaiian print shirt with red Hawaiian flowers.
"Enjoying yourself, Setsuna-senpai?" He asked me.
"Yeah. This place is pretty neat once you get used to the fact that you were kidnapped here," I told him as I sweat dropped at my own statement and as I placed on the Hawaiian print material.
"Suna-chan! Come swim with me!" Hunny shouted as he was now in the wave pool.
"Coming! Laters, Kyoya," I began to run and as soon as I neared, I jumped into the pool. I landed right near Hunny and began to play with him.
'Damn, I forgot to take off the cloth. Oh well,' I thought to myself.
"Look Takashi! Suna-chan came to play with me!" Hunny shouted towards his cousin.
I looked over towards Takashi and saw him smile at me. A blush slowly appeared but nonetheless I smiled back at him and gave him a wave with my hand.
"Hunny, do you want me to push you around?" I asked as I neared him.
"Un!"
I grabbed his little pink tube and began to swim against the current. Then I heard a splash around me. I felt a pair of hands grab my waist and they lifted me out of the water. I squealed and laughed. I looked over my shoulder and saw Takashi there smiling at my amusement.
"Takashi, put me down!" I laughed out. He then brought me back down and wrapped his arms around my hips.
"You look beautiful," Takashi whispered in my ear.
My face suddenly felt hot. "Thank you," I said slightly embarrassed.
"Takashi, let's swim against the current," Hunny smiled as he looked over at us.
"Ah," Takashi had said.
With that answer, Hunny somehow managed to get on his back while Takashi kept on swimming against the current. I swam towards the ledge and using my arms, I lifted my self up so that I could sit and just watch them.
"Hey, everyone, look!" Hunny shouted towards the others.
Swimming Very Hard Against the Current
"See, see! We're not advancing from our position at all even though we're swimming so hard!" Hunny shouted.
Suddenly, there was a close up of Hunny's face that was now surrounded by pink flowers. The words Unreadable popped up.
I laughed at his statement and just continued sitting there watching them. Suddenly I heard Hikaru and Kaoru shouting something about marrying Haruhi. Poor Tamaki.
"Can I be the maid of honor?" I shouted at them just for kicks.
The look on Tamaki's face was priceless as he began to pump a water gun. My attention was suddenly taken away once I felt someone next to me. Takashi sat besides me as he was getting ready to get out of the pool.
"Have a nice swim?" I asked him while smiling.
He blushed lightly and said, "Un. May you watch Mitsukuni for me for a moment?"
I nodded my head, "Sure."
He smiled at my response and was about to walk off; well not before he kissed my forehead, "Thank you, Setsuna."
I swear I think this blush is going to become permanent soon. I quickly jumped back into the pool and swam towards Hunny. I swam next to him while he swam on his own against the current.
Swimming Against the Current "I Can Do It Alone" Version
All was going well for me and Hunny. We played around having splash fights while we had to fight the current. It was rather hard, but so much fun. And it was a good work out too. I swam under water and playfully grabbed Hunny's feet. I swan back up and grabbed him.
"Gotcha!" We both laughed.
Suddenly, the current got stronger. I looked over and immediately grabbed a hold of Hunny and I was glad I did once I looked at the thing in front of us. A giant wave came towards us.
"Hunny, don't let go of me no matter what!" I shouted as I saw the wave get closer to us.
I screamed right before the wave hit us. The last thing I heard was the sound of people shouting our names and seeing Hunny's tube fly into the air.
My main concern was not letting go of Hunny as we were dragged by the current. He right now was my top priority after promising Takashi that I was going to watch him. The strength of the wave forced the both of us to hit the bottom of the pool as it dragged us through the river.
I was losing oxygen and I began to panic. I needed air and I knew that Hunny was going to be in need of it soon. Luckily, it wasn't long until I found something to grab onto. With my right hand, I gripped the unknown object and held onto it for our dear lives. I held Hunny against me as I felt him wrap his arms and legs around me.
Accidentally, I opened my mouth and there went some of my oxygen. I closed my eyes and tried to concentrate on holding the object. Suddenly, the force of the waves was suddenly disappearing. I let go of the object and swam towards the surface.
Immediately once my head reach out, I took a large breath of air. Next to me I heard Hunny doing the same thing.
"Hunny," I breathed out. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah. Are you okay, Suna-chan?" Hunny asked me in return.
"I'm fine. Just a bit tired now. Come on let's get out of the water. There should be some place where we can go and rest for a bit," I said to him. "Hunny, climb on my back."
"But Suna-chan –" He started but I interrupted him.
"I'll be fine. I'm more worried about you. Now hop on," I said to him.
"Okay," Hunny said as he climbed onto my back.
I started swimming the wave pool and looked around for a place where we can get some rest. I found a jungle in front of me. I swam to the ledge and using my arms, I lifted myself and Hunny up.
Once we were out of the pool, I was on my knees breathing heavily and coughing out any water that may have gone into the lungs.
"Suna-chan, are you sure you're fine?" Hunny asked as he patted my back to help me out.
"I'm good now. Thanks, Hunny," I told the teen as he smiled at me. I got up from the ground and removed the Hawaiian cloth and began to squeeze out the water that it had absorbed. I sighed and said to myself, "This is as good as it's gonna get." Now with that said, I wrapped the material around my waist to make a skirt. Sadly enough, it rested halfway of my thighs. No wait, it was less than that.
"Alright Hunny, let's go find out where the hell we are," I grabbed his hand and led him into the jungle.
We were walking in silence for a few good minutes when suddenly the sky got dark.
"What the?" I said aloud. Rain suddenly poured out from the sky.
"This way, Suna-chan," Hunny took my hand and led me to a huge tree. We sat down on the floor against the trunk. I was glad that the tree provided excellent protection against the rain.
"Suna-chan," I looked over at Hunny. "Do you think Takashi and everyone is out looking for us?"
I smiled at the teen and motioned for him to sit on my lap. He did so and rested his head against my shoulder. "Hunny, they are for sure looking for us. Don't doubt them, okay?"
He nodded his head, "Okay!"
I looked above and just watched the rain fall. "Hey Hunny?"
Hunny moved his head from my shoulder and said, "Yes?"
"By any chance do you know some self-defense moves?"
"Yup! Why?"
I scratched my head as I responded, "Well, seeing that we aren't gonna be walking around in the rain, I was wondering if you could teach me some moves."
"Sure! C'mon Suna-chan!"
And that's what we did until it stopped raining. Hunny told me that for a beginner, I was doing really well. I think it's because I used to do dance.
We continued walking around the forest in search for the others when suddenly Hunny spoke, "Suna-chan, have you kissed Takashi yet?"
Immediately, I tripped on my own feet. Hunny then came by my side and helped me up. He looked at me and I knew that he saw my giant red blush.
'What type of question is that?!' I thought in my head as the red color began to spread all over my face.
"Um," I began to twiddle my fingers. "What do you mean by kiss?"
Hunny just smiled at me and said, "Well at your okaa-san's wedding, I saw you kiss Takashi right by his mouth. So that means you must have kissed him by now, ne?"
Okay, my entire face and maybe down my neck was red. "You saw that?"
All he did was nod his head with his pink flowers. Kill me now. I was about to answer his question when I saw something.
"Hey look. There's a row of vines," I pointed towards the vines. "Hm, must be an obstacle course or something."
"I wanna go first!" Hunny shouted as he grabbed the first vine. Like a pro, he flew from vine to vine.
I walked over to the first vine and just looked at it. I tugged at it to see if it was stable or not. After giving it a few good tugs, I decided it was good enough to support my weight. But before getting on, I fixed the skirt that I had made.
"Stupid skirt. You had to be that short," I said to myself. "Oh well. Let's go!"
I grabbed the vine and readied myself. Then the swinging happened. I was literally nervous that I was going to fall. But if Hunny was able to do it, so could I.
A few good feet away from me, I heard Hunny shout out, "Takashi, Haru-chan, get out of the way!"
By the time I made it to where Hunny was, he was already beating up what appeared to be soldiers. Once my feet touched the ground I let go of the rope. I just stood there until I noticed that one of the soldiers was about to make a sneak attack.
"Oh no you don't!"
I ran towards the man. But fate seemed to hate me at the moment because I stumbled on my feet. However, fate seemed to be on my side too because I managed to land on my hands and make a hand stand in front of the guy that was going to attack Hunny.
Remembering a move that I had seen in a fighting game, I placed my legs between the guy's head while I was doing my hand stand and using my body weight and his, I managed to lift him up and slammed him to the ground.
I stood up right and was completely amazed at what I had just done. There was no way in hell I thought that would work, but apparently it did.
"Suna-chan, watch out!" Haruhi shouted.
I turned around and a guy was right there. He was about to punch me but I managed to dodge. How? I did the splits. I then quickly brought my legs together and did a fan kick, which resulted in knocking down the guy. I stood up and noticed that all the men had been defeated.
I walked over to Hunny as he said, "Don't be doing reckless things! Bullying my friends is a no-no! Ne, Suna-chan?" He pointed while his background had turned pink with pink hearts and pink flowers floating around him.
"Nicely said, Hunny," I patted his head. He looked at me and smiled.
No-No!
"Haruhi!" I looked over and saw Tamaki, Hikaru, Kaoru, and Kyoya running towards us. "Haruhi, are you all right?"
Hunny looked over and said, "Ah, Tama-chan!"
"Hiya!" I waved to the group.
"Huh?" Hikaru said as he saw Hunny and me.
"Hunny-senpai! Setsuna-senpai!" Kaoru shouted.
"Haruhi!" A chibi Tamaki ran towards Haruhi. Suddenly, he engulfed her in a hug and said while she looked all bored, "I was worried sick for you."
I watched Hikaru and Kaoru walk over to the fallen soldiers. Hikaru then said, "I'm not sure what happened, but it seems that they're safe."
"Well, this was Hunny-senpai's work, right?" Kaoru said. "Then he must have went easy on them."
"Huh?" Haruhi asked confused. "What does that mean?" She pinched Tamaki's hand to force him to let go of her.
"What?" Kaoru said.
"You didn't know? Haninozuka is famous for being the elite family in martial arts. Not only the police or the self-defense force, but they also instruct overseas," Hikaru exaplained.
"No freakin' way!" I said as I looked at Hunny.
"In particular, Hunny-senpai has been the first to be called a fierce warrior in the Haninozuka family, and he's already been the national champion for karate and judo in middle school," Kyoya explained.
Karate and Judo Champion
Flowers surrounded Hunny as he smiled.
"Also, Mori-senpai was the national kendo champion in middle school," Tamaki said next.
I looked over at Takashi surprised.
Kendo National Champion
"Hunny-senpai, Setsuna-senpai, why are you here?" Kaoru asked.
"Well, Suna-chan and I had reached the goal at the wave pool, so we then began to search for everyone. Suna-chan also helped me fight too!" Hunny said with his pink flowers.
Everyone's eyes suddenly turned to look at me as I smiled.
"We are extremely sorry!"
We all looked at the guards. I sweat dropped as I looked at them bowing before Hunny and me. There must have been about a million of sweat drops falling from all of them.
"I am the successor to the Ishikawa dojo," I heard one of the men say.
"I am a student at the Todoroki dojo," another one said.
"I am from the Ooteki dojo. We are always indebted to your family!"
"Oh really?" Hunny said. Kinda sounded like he was being sarcastic.
"Yes, we are humbled. For us to have not known that you were Haninozuka Mitsukuni-sama, we sincerely apologize for our rudeness. But, even if it's just a coincidence, it's an honor that will last for ages for our dojo for me to have been able to exchange blows with you! Also to have exchanged blows with your friend too!"
I smiled. Hehe, I should get more lessons from Hunny.
I then saw Hunny walk over to Takashi. He grabbed his arm and pulled him down. As he patted Takashi's head, Hunny said, "Takashi, it was so great of you to have protected Haru-chan for Suna-chan." He then stopped patting his head as he said, "You weren't lonely even when Suna-chan and I weren't around, huh?"
"Not completely," Takashi said.
Hunny smiled at the response. I just looked at the two cousins and smiled.
"We should go home now," I heard the twins say.
Everyone agreed and by then the soldiers were up and decided to escort us out of the jungle. I was about to follow the group when I heard someone say my name.
"Setsuna," I heard Takashi's voice say as he walked towards me.
"Yeah?" I said as I looked at him.
"Thank you."
I was confused now, "For what?"
He smiled at me and said, "For protecting Mitsukuni."
"It was nothing. I should thank you for protecting Haruhi," I smiled at him.
Then the unthinkable happened. We just stared into each others eyes and little by little the space between began to shrink. We were so close to each other when suddenly…
"Hurry up you two!" The twins shouted from way ahead of us.
I sighed and took a step back. "We're coming!" I shouted at them. I turned to look at Takashi, "Let's –"
A pair of lips stopped me from speaking. Butterflies erupted from my stomach as I felt Takashi's lips right at the corner of my mouth. He held it there for a few seconds before pulling away.
I was breathless. Even though it was just a small kiss at the corner of my lip, it meant the whole world to me. I was dazed and I knew I had a giant blush. I looked at Takashi and saw that he had a blush painted over his cheeks.
"Let's go, Setsuna?" Takashi said as he held out his hand for me to take.
"Let's," I responded and took his hand. We ran over to the group and walked back with them. At some point Hunny ended up being carried by Takashi on his shoulders, but Takashi still held onto my hand.
We were now walking across where we originally were at when Hikaru said, "Next time, we should go to the beach for a change of mood."
"Ahh, the beach, that's a good idea," Kaoru said next.
"Fools, Haruhi's not interested in that," Tamaki said, like if he knew everything about Haruhi.
"I wouldn't mind going to the beach. I don't really enjoy artificial sites, but the beach's nice. It's beautiful, too," Haruhi told them.
"Okay, I know. We'll go to the beach next time!" Tamaki announced.
"So, everyone to the beach next time, huh? It's going to be so much fun!" Hunny said as a smile appeared on his face.
"Yup! Lot's of fun!" I smiled as I looked at my fellow seniors.
"Ah (Yeah)," Takashi said while looking at Hunny and then at me. A blush slowly formed on my cheeks as I gripped Takashi's hand. He too replied the same way.
'Hmm, I wonder what's gonna happen next. Time to just wait and see.'
